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Quotes About Passion

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.
~ Freddie Mercury
Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music.
~ Michael Jackson
Some people have lives; some people have music.
~ John Green
A lot of music comes from a selfish place.
~ Vince Staples
Rock's always been the devil's music.
~ David Bowie
The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.
~ Gerard Way
Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.
~ Angelique Kidjo
I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.
~ Kerry King
That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
~ Syd Barrett
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
~ Gates McFadden
I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
~ Grace Slick
You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
~ Elvin Jones
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
~ Julian Lennon
I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.
~ Jeff Beck
Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'
~ Charles Mingus
I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.
~ Juicy J
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
~ Artie Shaw
When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
~ George Gershwin
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
~ George Szell
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
~ Joan Baez
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
~ Dr. Dre
I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.
~ Iron & Wine
Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.
~ Liam Gallagher
I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
~ Evan Dando